My experience with cpufreq in -STABLE

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:33, Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:49:25AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > The algorithm used by the acpi_ppc module semed quite good to me when I
> > used it (before the frequency stuff was committed).
> > http://www.spa.is.uec.ac.jp/~nfukuda/software/index.html
>
> I saw it.  I have some concern about the linear behaviour when going
> up (don't mind, I'm never happy ;).  We'll miss the case where
> there are bursts.  There were some heuristics such as the
> excess_cycle trick that may help if we consider this algorithm.
> (search ReducedEnergyScheduling.ps in your favorite search engine).

Yes, well there is no "right" solution - it depends on what your goal is :)

A few to choose from would be nice and it's a fairly easy coding task for 
neophytes :)

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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